53 bicycles: A lateral thinking puzzle

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581
  1. Was the non-smoking car dark?
  2. Did his unusual medical condition interact with light and darkness?
  3. Was he human?
  4. Was he a vampire?
  5. Were the curtains open or opened in the non-smoking car?
  6. Is his actual location relevant?
582
  1. Sometimes.
  2. Yes.
  3. yes.
  4. No.
  5. Irrelevant.
583
  1. Is the issue when the car went through a tunnel?
  2. Is it the light from the lit cigarettes that saved him?
  3. Is he so terrified of the dark that he would’ve gotten himself killed in complete darkness?
  4. Would he, more generally speaking, have killed himself in complete darkness?
584
  1. Is the fact that he wasn’t in the smoking car relevant, apart from not being the non-smoking car?
  2. Would knowing the specific location he was in be relevant, apart from not being in the non-smoking car?
585
  1. Would complete darkness have caused his death? (even more generally speaking)
586
  1. Yes.
  2. Yes.
  3. No
  4. Yes.
  1. He was in the smoking car.
  2. No.

No.

587

Huh?

588

Ah, I have a correction to make.

He was in the smoking car. I apologize for my misread.

589
  1. Did his medical condition require him to do some task that required light?
  2. Would he have accidentally killed himself had he been in the non-smoking car?
  3. Would he have mis-medicated himself had he been in the non-smoking car?
590

Need to generalize those questions:
4. Did his medical condition require someone to do a task that required light?
5. Would he have died accidentally had he been in the non-smoking car?
6. Would he have been mis-medicated had he been in the non-smoking car?
7. Would he have gone unmedicated had he been in the non-smoking car?

591
  1. No.
  2. No.
  3. No.
  1. No.
  2. No.
592

I probably should just post fresh rather than doing late edits…

  1. Did his medical condition require someone to do a task that required light?
  2. Would he have gone unmedicated had he been in the non-smoking car?
593
  1. Would darkness have made him (and/or a caregiver) unaware of a change in his medical condition?
594
  1. No.
  2. No.
595

As the trip actually occurred, did he attempt to commit suicide?
If he had not been in the smoking car, would he have deliberately committed suicide?
At the time that he would have died, would he have been in his seat?

I’m thinking that he was moving about for some reason, and almost mistook a door to the outside with a door that led back to his seat.

596

Recap: He had an unusual medical condition, and he would have committed suicide if not in the smoking car. It’s relevant that the train went through a tunnel. The light from other people’s cigarettes saved him, but a candle flame would have worked, too.

Did he think he’d gone blind when the train went through the tunnel?

597
  1. No.
  2. Yes.
  3. Yes.
  1. No.
598
  1. Is the method that he would have used to commit suicide relevant?
  2. Was he insane?
  3. Was his medical condition purely psychological?
  4. Was his medical condition not at all psychological?
599

snoe, I don’t think that’s quite the question you meant to ask. I’ll rephrase it:
Would he have thought he’d gone blind when the train went through the tunnel, if he hadn’t seen the cigarettes?

And I’ll generalize:
If he had committed suicide, would it have been due to any mistake of fact?
If so, did the light from the lit cigarettes give him the correct information which prevented that mistake?

600
  1. No.
  2. No.
  3. No.
  4. Yes.
  1. Yes.